18th March 2016

Actions and solutions

by Ian Beeson

In looking back to Yearly Meeting 2015 and reflecting on where we had arrived after the gathering, it seemed to me that we were essentially standing at the same threshold as…

18th March 2016

Gleanings: Making a connection

by Laurie Michaelis

I meet a lot of Friends who want to know how they can communicate better about climate change. Some are frustrated or distressed because they think too little is happening to…

18th March 2016

Becoming ‘a nonviolent extremist’

by Christopher Bagley

At a recent Woodbrooke workshop organised by Maud Grainger on Understanding Islam: Challenging Islamophobia, members of Birmingham’s Muslim community told us astonishing stories…

11th March 2016

Passing the problem by

by Ian Beeson
11th March 2016

Thought for the Week: A silent prayer for peace

by Jane Taylor

The invitation was issued by Mo: to join in a silent prayer for peace, in Lancaster market square, on the museum steps, from eleven o’clock to noon on Saturday 20 February. Her…

11th March 2016

Moving beyond difference

by Gretchen Castle

At the World Plenary Meeting I had the distinct feeling that we, as Friends, are evolving. Someone described our time together in Pisac, Peru, as ‘soft’, as an experience of…

11th March 2016

Pisac and equality

by Daniel Hewitt

We met together for nine days (19-27 January 2016) in a beautiful valley 10,000 feet up in Pisac, Peru. The Inca culture, ancient terraces and the remains of cities from the…

11th March 2016

Housing and inequality

by Fred Ashmore

A deep concern for the future of social housing in Britain was one of the main themes to emerge from a one-day conference organised by London Quakers that was held on 20 February…

11th March 2016

‘Fierce Feathers’, ambulance trains and surrealism

by Simon Colbeck

Oxhey Grange, near Watford, was the home of James Doyle Penrose, the artist of two familiar Quaker paintings: The Presence in the Midst and None Shall Make them Afraid (perhaps…

11th March 2016

Water of Life

by Bob Morley

11th March 2016

God is reality

by Abigail Maxwell

I am a materialist. I do not believe in Spirit as some sort of miasma, or ether, or non-baryonic thing, which in some way interacts with the physical world in which I have my…

4th March 2016

Thought for the Week: Grace-full Quakers

by Rosalind Smith

Who can you call to mind that has grace? What is this elusive quality exhibited unconsciously by some, and seemingly completely missing in others?